there's still far too many banks in russia, so there's consolidation. and people like we have a diy business for example which is growing very quickly in the regional regions of russia. retail is very interesting, as well. >> so what would you say if you were involved in the dialogue day da with the germans? >> well, i think it's quite a difficult balance really. i think russia is looking to germany and europe to provide stability with respect to the euro. they feel greece is close to the russian situation, so people become frighten of investing in markets like russia. so i think russians will be looking at merkel to give them assurance that the european situation will be sorted out. >> over in japan, election fever has hit the country. let's go to the nikkei for the latest details. >> that's right, n on oda is paving the way for japan's first general election since his party the democratic party of japan a came to power in 2009. noda will face a leader who ran the country as a prime minister back in 2006 and then stepped down a year later due to ill he